SERIAL sex attacker Jason Lawrance has been found guilty of raping five women, attempting to rape another woman and sexually assaulting a seventh after meeting them on match.com - including one victim attacked at Bradgate Park.

Police only uncovered a “disturbing picture” of a man found guilty of seven sex attacks on women he met on match.com after he raped his final victim.

Jason Lawrance, 50, of Liphook, Hampshire, Was found guilty at Derby Crown Court.

A succession of women had complained to the internet dating website about 50-year-old Jason Lawrance, who used the site under the names KeepItStraightToday and StraightMan-Looking.

Police were called by a woman from Derbyshire in November 2014 who claimed a friend was raped by Lawrance at her home after meeting on the site.

Officers then discovered the 50-year-old had been arrested for an attempted rape in Lincolnshire and released without charge in July 2013, and then links were drawn between these attacks and two anonymously reported rapes in Derbyshire and Norfolk.

Police then trawled through Lawrance’s phone and match.com profile data and three further women were asked if they had any concerns about the site - two of the women said they were raped by a man they identified as Lawrance, while a third said she was sexually assaulted by him.

The court heard that Lawrance sought to talk to the women away from the gaze of website administrators.

Jason Lawrence, 50, who has been found guilty at Derby Crown Court, of raping five women after meeting them on internet dating site match.com. (Derbyshire police /PA Wire)

Prosecutor Shaun Smith QC said: “We suggest that’s because he was keen to engineer a situation where he persuaded women to make contact with him privately by phone or text message or email so he was not being watched by the match.com website.”

During his trial, Lawrance said that match.com was a place where people met for casual sex, that all the women were consenting and that he was the victim of “lies” from the women who had made allegations against him.

Mr Smith said Lawrance had a Jekyll and Hyde character - that he would target “vulnerable, naive, lonely women, the ones least likely to report you as indeed they did not”.

Lawrance maintained the women were lying and he had been “deliberately set up”.

Match.com said it has the “most heartfelt concern” for the victims and that “the safety of our members is our highest priority”.

A spokeswoman said: “We invest heavily in the latest technology to find those that might try and exploit others, as well as ensure regular communication to our members with advice on how to stay safe.

“We work closely with the police and other authorities to help as much as we can with their investigations, as we have done on this case.

“We also encourage everyone to use the same common sense meeting people with our app or online as they would if they were meeting through friends or in a pub or bar.”

Here is a timeline of the case against Lawrance, 50, of Liphook, Hampshire.

• 2009: Jason Lawrance joins the match.com dating website.

• April 2011: Lawrance contacts a 54-year-old woman from Northamptonshire, they exchange mobile numbers and go out for drinks on four occasions between April and June.

• June 2011: The woman and Lawrance agree to meet up for a drink near Crick in Northamptonshire. Lawrance turns up in a van, drives her up a track to a field and takes her mobile phone away from her. He then encourages her to get into the back of the van where he rapes her and warns her not to tell the police.

• July 2013: Lawrance meets another woman, aged 54, through match.com and asks her if he can come and see her. The pair go out for drinks and then return to her home in Lincolnshire, where he asks if he can stay over. The woman agrees on the condition that he sleeps on the sofa. During the night, the woman wakes up with an “awful weight” on her while Lawrance attempts to rape her. The victim calls out for her 16-year-old son and Lawrance grabs his clothes and leaves.

• November 2013: Lawrance meets a third woman, aged 50, on match.com and, after exchanging texts and phone calls, they meet in Buxton, Derbyshire. They first meet at a Costa Coffee shop, and on a later date he arranges to come over to her house and stays the night where they have consensual sex. The following morning, Lawrance rapes the woman despite her “hysterically screaming ‘No, no, no’.”

• February 2014: The former company director meets a fourth woman from the internet dating site at a hotel car park near East Midlands Airport. They drive together in the woman’s car to Bradgate Park in Leicestershire where they go for a walk. Lawrance repeatedly asked the woman for a kiss, but she declines. The pair get into her car to drive back to the hotel car park where Lawrance “becomes aggressive”, leans across to kiss her and grabs her right breast.

• October 2014: Lawrance meets a woman via the website and they have consensual sex in a hotel in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, before going out for a walk and a meal. The woman then asks to use the toilet in Lawrance’s room before she drives home. At this point, he rips her tights off, ties her hands behind her back and rapes her.

• November 2014: Lawrance meets up with a sixth woman in a Leicestershire hotel, tells her “this is what you want”, tears her top off and rapes her. The victim, aged 48, says in an interview the one thing she remembers the most from the attack is the sweat from Lawrance dripping into her eyes.